K Rouse has evolved from its first contract in August 1993 updating a water main at Menwith Hill, Harrogate for Clugston Construction over a 16 week period. From then small groundworks packages were undertaken as K Rouse Groundworks as a sole trader before setting up K Rouse Civil Engineers Ltd in 1995. The company progressed to a civil engineering turnover of £30M in 2009, employing 350 people.

European Plant Services was established in 2005 as a plant dealership, 2009 saw excavator sales of 400 units that year.

The recession saw the company looking for other opportunities in the industry and in 2011 launched Rouse Homes as a private housebuilder, reaching its 100th completion in 2017 with a land bank of 100 plots to commence in 2018. K Rouse Civil Engineers undertake all civil engineering and groundworks packages for Rouse Homes.

Recently K Rouse have been awarded a section of the J16-19 widening of the M6 Highways England contract between Stoke-On-Trent and Knutsford, working for Kier.